Part 7

"Au nom de l'auteur, le Dr. Frédéric Bateman, je présente à la Société un exemplaire de la seconde édition de son célèbre ouvrage sur l'aphasie. Les progrès considérables de nos connaissances, durant les vingt dernières années, sur les diverses espèces d'aphasie, sont exposés avec une grande clarté dans ce remarquable ouvrage aussi savant qu'original, le plus complet qui existe sur la matière dont il traite. L'auteur lui a consacré toute sa vie, déjà longue, de penseur et de praticien."

"LE PROFESSEUR BROWN-SÉQUARD, "_Président de la Société de Biologie_."

_Gazzetta Degli Ospitali, Milano._

"È una monographia importante su questa affezione tanto studiata ai nostri tempi. L'A conosce tutto ciò che fu scritto in proposito e lo sottopone ad una critica sensata e profonda. Egli raccolse un gran numero di casi, e, avendo cosi avuto a sua disposizione un vasto materiale, ha potuto studiare accuratamente la malattia.

"Il quarto capitolo contiene le esperienze cliniche dell'A, in una serie di X Casi dettagliati alcuni dei quali furono da lui osservati come medico del Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Interessante quello di una afasia puerperale in una signora il cui vocabolario era limitato ad una frase: the other day--l'altro giorno."

_Neurologisches Centralblatt._

"Im 1.--3, Kapitel wird die Litteratur und Bibliographie der Aphasie ausführlich berichtet, indem die betreffenden Arbeiten aller Länder in gleichem Maasse gewürdigt werden. Im 4. Kapitel finden wir einige eigene Beobachtungen des Autors. Kapitel 5 bringt die Definition der Aphasie und die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Sprache. In Kapitel 6 und 7 wird die Klassification der Sprache abgehandelt. Mitunter fehlen dem Sprechenden nur die Substantiva, oder ganz bestimmte Worte, oder eine bestimmte Landessprache; in anderen Fällen von Aphasie werden nur bestimmte Phrasen beständig wiederholt etc. Auch die Schriftstörungen und die Anomalien der Mimik und Zeichensprache bei der Aphasie werden besprochen; ferner die Affectausdrücke, Bedeutung der Injectionen, der hysterische Mutismus u. s. w. Im 8. Kapitel werden die ätiologischen Factoren der Aphasie hervorgehoben: Angeborene Stummheit, Sprachstörungen der Idioten; Aphasie in Folge von Exostosen der Schädelknochen; Thrombose, Embolie der Gehirnarterien; ischämische Erweichung, etc. Kapitel 9 behandelt die Diagnose, Prognose, Therapie, während im folgenden Kapitel die Rechtsfragen der Aphasischen erörtert werden. In den letzten Kapiteln 11 und 12 geht der Verf., soweit die betreffenden Gegenstände zur Aphasie in Beziehung treten, auf den Hypnotismus ein, den anatomischen Sitz, die mikroskopischen Befunde, auf die Physiologie und Psychologie der Sprache, die experimentelle Pathologie, die allgemeine Anthropologie, auf die Hirnchemie etc."

AMERICAN & COLONIAL NOTICES.

From the _Montreal Medical Journal_.

"The learned author of this work was the first to publish in English a treatise on Aphasia. Not the least interesting part of the work is that referring to the author's own contributions. The subject of Aphasia is treated in all its relations, and in all its forms and modifications.

"There is certainly no work in the English language which gives such a full and accurate account of this abstruse subject. The author is to be congratulated on having produced a work that will be a standard authority on loss of speech."

From the _American Journal of Insanity_.

"Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this book of Dr. Bateman's is the singular spirit of scientific fairness that characterizes its every utterance, so conspicuous and so anomalous is this, that it is worthy of special mention.

"It is a book which no student of medicine, of language, or of psychology can afford to be without."

From the _New York Medico-Legal Journal_.

"This is a book which will interest all neurologists, and reflects great credit on its author, for the research and care, as well as fairness of the discussion, which is raised between the several schools of thought.

"That part of the work most interesting to us is the chapter on the Medical Jurisprudence of Aphasia, the hints on criminal Anthropology, the Chemistry of the Brain, and the question of Localisation of the Faculty of Speech.

"The work on the whole is a very valuable contribution to the literature of Aphasia, and will be welcomed by all Neurologists."

From the _Alienist and Neurologist_.

"This is a valuable contribution to the history and literature of the subject, a subject not yet too old to have lost its interest to either professional or lay reader.

"No library of the literature of Aphasia, however, would be complete without this book. The author is elaborate without complexity."

_London: Jarrold and Sons, 10 and 11, Warwick Lane, E.C._

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.

Italic text is denoted by _underscore_ and bold text by =equal signs=.

Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

The oe and ae ligatures in the text has been left as it appears in the original book.

On page 47 "genetous" replaced with "genetic". On page 59 "demostand" replaced with "demonstrants". On page 81 "artizan" replaced with "artisan".

Greek translations:

sôma, psychê, pneuma σωμα, ψυχη, πνευμα

idiotês ιδιοτης

iatros kaì ìdiôtês ιατρος καì ìδιωτης

Ho de nous eoiken enginesthai ousia tis ousa, kai ou phtheiresthai. Ὁ δε νους εοικεν εγγινεσθαι ουσια τις ουσα, και ου φθειρεσθαι.

nous νους

ousia ουσια

logos λογος

en métrô hôs poiêtês, hê haneu métrou hôs idiôtês εν μéτρω ὡς ποιητης, ἡ ἁνευ μéτρου ὡς ιδιωτης

iatros kahi hisiôtês ιατρος καἱ ἱσιωτης

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, many mismatched quotation marks have not been changed.

The following numerous errors were left as is: endquote missing punctuation wrong spaced quotes long line errors appear only with Greek lettering